TRANSCRIPT – ¡SÍ SE PUEDE!

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Algemene Centrale ABVV
presents

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This is an armoured vehicle.

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There is also an armed bodyguard

riding along for our security.

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a Docwerkers production

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It's Protection Level 3.

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You can tell from the thickness

of the bullet-resistant glass.

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It's about this thick.

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And we've also got a weapon,

to protect the union leader.

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With these physical security measures,

we prevent the risk

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that we, union leaders, run

of being killed.

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<i>change for life</i>

<i>Petro for president</i>

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For decades,

Colombia has been torn by a civil war

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between the guerrillas, the state

and far-right paramilitary groups.

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The conflict has cost

hundreds of thousands of civilian lives.

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Six million people

have been forced to flee.

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According to the UN,

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the paramilitary groups are responsible

for the most deaths.

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The paramilitary structures enjoy

deep-rooted support

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from the Colombian elite, the U.S.

Government and Western multinationals.

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The youths who have been killed

or have disappeared...

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The women who have been abused

or have disappeared...

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Colombia is the world's deadliest country

for unionists and human rights activists.

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In 2022,

over 215 political activists were killed,

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the highest number in years.

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I would like to express my thanks

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to all Colombian men and women,

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to civil society leaders,

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who have given their lives

for this moment.

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In 2022, for the first time in history,

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a progressive government

took power in Colombia.

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Gustavo Petro became President,

with a programme of social reforms,

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equal rights for women and people

of colour, climate justice and peace.

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Francia Márquez, a human rights activist

and former housekeeper, is Vice President.

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Thank you for sowing the seed

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of resistance and hope.

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¡Sí se puede!
Trade union action in Colombia

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BARRANCABERMEJA

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To explain the armed conflict

in Colombia,

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you must look at it through the lens

of social inequalities.

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This is a country

with very rich biodiversity,

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Moisés Barón
USO - Petroleum labourers’ union

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with loads of natural wealth:

oil, gold, coal, emeralds...

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The country has all that wealth,

and if it was well distributed,

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there would be more than enough

for everyone.

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Barrancabermeja is a good example

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of what bad distribution of wealth

looks like:

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people living in poverty on the land,

while the ground is bursting with wealth.

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Whenever you look into it,

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you quickly run

into that reprehensible state of affairs:

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the city has a great deal

of wealth from oil,

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but there's significant economic

and social poverty amongst the people.

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With the social and popular movement,

the union movement,

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we've always sought social justice,

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for ways of redistributing the wealth.

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But clearly, the reaction in Colombia

was extremely bloody and violent.


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CARTAGENA

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I'm the head of my household.

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I have two daughters.

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I'm the one who works

and supports my family.

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Nohelia Mendoza
SINTRAIMAGRA - Domestic workers’ union

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I work in an affluent neighbourhood here,

in the city of Cartagena.

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It's a quiet neighbourhood.

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It's also very safe,

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unlike some other neighbourhoods

in this city.

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In my neighbourhood,

there's a lot of crime.

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Lots of youths get mixed up in drugs.

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Lots of youths loiter on the streets.

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So, it's pretty dangerous

in my neighbourhood.

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We live in a country

where there's a lot of corruption.

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Priority is given

to those who have the most.

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They prioritise people

who have more economic means

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than the poor people,

the lower class. And so...

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So, there is inequality.

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Ever since I was pregnant, I've been

both father and mother to my daughter.

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My daughter will soon turn 31,

and I live with my father and my mother.

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Nellys Simarra
SINTRAIMAGRA - Domestic workers’ union

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They've always supported me

in helping my daughter get ahead.

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They've always supported me

with everything.

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I get up, and then I have to leave

just before quarter to five,

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so I arrive at work

promptly at six o'clock.

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I work as a housekeeper.

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I work in a family's home.

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I take care of an eight-month-old baby

and do the housework:

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I clean, I cook,

I prepare baby food...

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Everything related to housekeeping.

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From six in the morning

until five in the evening.

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And I get home at seven thirty

in the evening.

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Sadly, I do not earn enough

to provide for all of my needs.

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It's a constant battle.

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I still have to take care of that,

you think, but if I do,

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how will I pay for that other thing?

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How do I make what little I earn

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stretch as far as possible,

so I can pay for everything?

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But it's not possible.

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There are times when I think:

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I want a better life.

I want to be better off.

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Looking around here,

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I see all of those gigantic buildings,

all of that luxury.

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There's money here.

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<i>welcome</i>

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In Colombia, social leadership

is very risky.

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Over 100 leaders of the Unión Sindical

Obrera have been killed.

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Our union is the third biggest victim,

after the farmers and educators,

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of the worst form of violence,

which is murder.

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In all of our buildings, including here,

at USO headquarters in Barrancabermeja,

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there are portraits

of all of our comrades, union leaders,

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who have been killed.

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It honours their memory,

and it preserves their historical legacy.

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Please press your finger again.

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A few union leaders live here.

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Here, too, there are two rooms

where union leaders live.

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And I live here.

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My family and I decided

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not to expose them too much

to my working environment.

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They moved to another city,

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to take distance from the biggest risks.

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My family lives in Bucaramanga.

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During the week, I do my work

for the union here,

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and I stay in the rooms

the union makes available.

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It's for security reasons.

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If we stay in the city or in hotels,

we run a great risk.

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So, they decided to house union leaders

in this building,

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with the union's own security services.

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It does create physical

and emotional distance.

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Of course, after your workday,

you would prefer to be able to go home

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and be welcomed with a hug.

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You'd rather have a cup of coffee

or drink a glass of juice

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in the company of your loved ones.

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This war has scarred me.

Yes, it has scarred me badly.

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Seeing so much injustice.

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Seeing so much inequality.

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My family had to flee.

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Yes.

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That happened to us, as it has

to so many people in this country,

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who had to leave everything behind

in the middle of the war

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and move to another city to start over.

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It's difficult to start over.

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It's difficult to arrive

in an unfamiliar place

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and start knocking on doors.

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Where will you find work?

Where will you live?

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I feel... I'm proud

of what I've been able to achieve so far

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and to accomplish through my efforts.

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On 10 September, here,

in the city of Barrancabermeja,

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a fellow USO union leader

from Barrancabermeja was murdered.

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Comrade Sibaris Lamprea

was murdered here

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at about eight o'clock in the evening.

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Of course, he wasn't just

a fellow union leader or colleague.

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He was actually a friend, a brother.

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Of course, it hits you hard.

First of all, because you lose someone,

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second because we lost a union leader

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and third because it moves

the whole union and all of society,

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and it leaves us in a state

of great anxiety and uncertainty.

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For the dead.

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Our dead.

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Not one minute of silence.

A lifelong fight.

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Comrade Sibaris Lamprea.

- Present, present, present.

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Until when?

- Forever.

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Until when?

- Forever.

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Oh, my boy.

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Oh, son.

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Until eternity, my son.

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Until eternity, until eternity.

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On days and at times like these,

you ask yourself if there's a point

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and if it's worth carrying on,

knowing that it could mean

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losing your life.

And you can't get that back.

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But we've also learnt

that fear can lead to two things:

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either it paralyses us,

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or it inspires us to take

a huge leap forwards,

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in particular by uniting our fears,

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so we can turn them

into a source of strength.

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You can only fight fear

if you organise and join forces.

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Alone, we can't do it. Never.

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We're very vulnerable and fragile

on our own.

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The collective path,

the path of unity,

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allows us to receive the embrace,

the solidarity and the power,

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and that enables us to keep going.

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Hello.

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Are you coming with me

to the meeting at ten o'clock?

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No problem.

- I'm expecting you. Thank you.

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Unionists have the reputation

of being revolutionaries.

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Hello.

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When I started working,

I said I knew my rights.

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I told the man that I knew a union

and that I was a member.

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I said: I'm a member of a union,

and I know my rights and responsibilities.

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And when I said that, he went...

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Hi, ladies.

- Hello.

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How are you?

- Fine, thank God.

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Good, I'm glad to hear it.

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It's nice to have you here on a Sunday.

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We know that this is our day of rest,

the only day we have off

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to take care of ourselves

and our families.

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But I'm grateful to you

for taking the time

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to take part in this workshop.

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It's hard for housekeepers

to get organised in a union,

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because there's only one housekeeper

per house, per family and per household.

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The theme of this workshop

is 'self-esteem'.

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Why do you think that is important

for the work that we do?

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So that other people, or society,

don't look down on us

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because we are housekeepers,

or because:

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I went to school.

You just do housekeeping.

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That humiliates you

or hurts your self-esteem.

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This teaches us that we do, indeed,

do the housekeeping for a family,

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but we can do it with our heads held high,

because it's a job like any other.

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It's a worthy job,

and we can enforce our rights.

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Yes, that is certainly true.

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Many employers think that because we...

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Because we do domestic work,

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they think: they're stupid.

You must treat them like idiots.

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They try to take advantage of us,

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because we aren't as highly educated

as they are.

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Some colleagues encounter discrimination

because of their skin colour, too.

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Because my skin is darker

than my boss's skin.

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You know, I think some bosses abuse

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housekeepers' trust.

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We must demand respect

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from those who abuse housekeepers.

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Thanks to these workshops,

we know where and how

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we can express and demand our rights.

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This is a new, very enlightening

experience for me.

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They empower us

and teach us how to be a leader,

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because we are leaders

in our neighbourhood.

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It's a very productive workshop

that is teaching us a lot.

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We're learning that we can't

let anyone walk all over us.

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We must always be empowered.

Women in power.

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Women in power.

- In power.

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That's it.

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All right...

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When we meet

and share these stories with each other,

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it becomes clear that we must unite,

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that we must fight for a common good.

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<i>The people won't give up, damn it.</i>

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<i>The people won't give up, damn it.</i>

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<i>The people won't give up, damn it.</i>

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<i>The people won't give up, damn it.</i>

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<i>a union fight without feminism</i>

<i>is like a Christian without Christ</i>

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Thank you very much.

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Long live the belligerent,

100-year-old, revolutionary USO.

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<i>happy birthday</i>

<i>USO 100 years old</i>

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Comrades...

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Let's not forget.

Let's keep the memory alive.

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Comrades killed by the establishment,

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killed because they dared

to stand up for workers' rights.

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For the first time in history,

we have a progressive government,

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a government that is trying

to effect change.

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And yes, the government changed,

but the power did not.

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The establishment has a firm grip

on the structures of the state.

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We are celebrating our 100th anniversary,

comrades,

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thanks to the revolutionary battle

each of you is fighting.

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And we are heading into the next century,

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where the major challenges awaiting us

are transforming society,

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building up rights

and creating sovereignty.

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Long live the USO.

- Long live the USO.

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Clearly, in four years,

you cannot solve all of the problems

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related to inequality,

poverty and misery in this country,

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but this is a milestone

in the history of Colombia.

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This is a new chapter, in which

we can look forward to a democratic future

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in which civil society

can make its proposals,

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submit parliamentary

and legislative initiatives

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and let the president know

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what suffering and desperation the people

have been bearing for all these years.

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Based on that, policy can be developed

that ensures

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that everyone in this country is given

space and equal opportunities.

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So, what we have are three reforms

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that seek to guarantee

universal human rights

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when it comes to labour,

health and pensions.

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Three reforms that seek more justice.

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We are not asking for socialism

and a flood of iconoclasm.

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What we want is democracy and peace.

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Therefore, I am asking

the Colombian oligarchy,

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the world of economic power,

to make a show of generosity.

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Allow for the reformation of Colombia.

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If we succeed,

we will give future generations the gift

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of a worthy country,

a country that really did win back

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its rights, social justice

and democracy.

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Thank you very much.

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Yes, it's possible. Yes, it's possible.

Yes, it's possible.

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In the past,

doom-mongers have always told us

00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,000

that it wasn't possible

to change the government in Colombia.

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Now, they're telling us that the political

and economic agenda can't change

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and that it's impossible to transform

the power structures in this country.

00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:34,280

To them, we say:

Yes, it's possible. Yes, it was possible.

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Yes, it's possible. Yes, it was possible.

00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,640

Yes, it's possible. Yes, it was possible.

00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:44,160

Yes, it's possible. Yes, it's possible.

Yes, it's possible.

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Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Barrancabermeja.

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I am full of hope.

00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:11,600

I have a lot of hope

for what the president will achieve.

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There are many people

who believe in him like I do.

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I believe in what he's doing,

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in the reforms he wants to implement,

for us, for the poor,

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for people of limited means.

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There is a lot of hope

that something will change,

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that things will get better for us.

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I think it's not fair.

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Colombia is a country

that has so many natural resources,

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so much wealth.

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And yet, we always have to ask ourselves

how we are going to make ends meet.

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It would be much better if we could live

in a country where there's more balance.

00:31:37,600

¡Sí se puede!
Trade union action in Colombia


A film by Docwerkers

with

Moisés Barón

Nohelia Mendoza

Nellys Simarra

and

Kiara Cantillo, Kerlin Guzman, Silvia Pren, Karina Salcedo, Gisela Acevedo, María López, Sandra Estupiñán, Adriana Serrano, Katerine Heredia, Nerlys Simarra
Alejandro Simarra, Edith Salas, Belkys Franco, Tifany Pulido

Written and directed by
Pieter De Vos

Sound and assistant director
Andrés Lübbert

Camera
Pieter De Vos

Editing
Emilie Van Peer
Leslie Verbeeck
Pieter De Vos

Audio mixing
Kraakhelder

Color grading
Fran Verveckken

Music
Artlist
Motion Array
Batucada Guaricha

Subtitles
Piet Demeulemeester

Archival footage

Image excerpt speech Vice president Francia Márquez
under licence from Radio Televisión Nacional de Colombia – RTVC

Image excerpt funeral Sibaris Lamprea
under licence from USO Colombia

For De Algemene Centrale ABVV

Bruno Verlaeckt

Koen Vanbrabandt

Geoffrey Goblet

Special Thanks

Cristóbal Silva

Jo Vervecken

Rudi Sohier

José Daniel Acosta

Yolanda Lamas

Berta Villamizar

Dibett Quintana

Leon Haberkorn

USO Barrancabermeja

SINTRAIMAGRA Cartagena

The projects of de Algemene Centrale ABVV in Colombia are managed by FOS and ISVI.

C / CC-BY-NC-ND Docwerkers 2023